multispined

English

Adjective

multispined (not comparable)

1. (anatomy, zootomy) Of or pertaining to a structure having multiple spines.
   • 1872, F.V. Hayden, Preliminary Report of the United States Geological Survey of Μontana and Portions of Adjacent Territories Being a Fifth Annual Report of Progress, Washington: Government Printing Office, page 437:

     Posterior tibiæ multispined; spines alternately long and short.

   • 1946 December, “Trunk-Size Oil-Burning Furnace Heats Five-Room House”, in Popular Mechanics, volume 86, number 6, →ISSN, page 170:

     It is channeled through multispined copper fins which warm the air and release it into the air ducts of the house.

   • 2024 May 15, Kevin Lee Teather, The Evolution of Sex: Strategies of Males and Females, Oxford University Press, page 131:

     Male red-sided garter snakes have a multispined hemipenis with a sizeable basal spine that is inserted into the female during the reproductive bout.